It was as if the woman had become addicted to melancholia as one becomes addicted to opium. Now do you see how it is? Her sadness becomes her happiness. She wants to be a sacrificial victim, Smithson. Where you and i flinch back, she leaps forward. She is possessed, you see. He sat down again. Dark indeed. Very dark.
It was as if the woman had become addicted to melancholia as one becomes addicted to opium. Now do you see how it is? Her sadness becomes her happiness. She wants to be a sacrificial victim, Smithson. Where you and i flinch back, she leaps forward. She is possessed, you see. He sat down again. Dark indeed. Very dark.